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New Cavaliers! A Call to Arms!

July 22, 2011
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In the past couple of weeks I have written a series of articles on the New Puritans on my blog – these have been aimed more at understanding than at castigation. We have to appreciate that these people are not bad people but that they believe absolutely that the role of public health is to change [...]

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Britain’s ‘oldest smoker’ dies after puffing on cigarettes for 95 years

August 13, 2010

The great-great grandmother, who loved a good party, took her first puff aged seven, just after the First World War started. Throughout her life it is thought the defiant OAP, who outlived her husband, son and all of her 10 stepchildren, smoked more than 170,000 cigarettes. Mrs Langley, who made headlines at her 100th birthday [...]

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The Smoker in the Deck.

June 15, 2010

[Ed. Anna I need 150 words on transplant patients by 8am] 30% of Transplant patients die before they ever get the chance of a donor organ. According to NHS figures, three people die each day waiting for a transplant. However the family of a 28 year old committed Christian told of their horror at learning [...]

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Perversion as Spectator Sport.

December 9, 2009

From the earliest times of the institution later known as ‘Asylum’, those incarcerated as designated ‘mad’, or not conforming to the concurrent mores of society, became the objects of public gaze, ridicule, even amusement. Viewing the perverted, the non-conformist, the madman, was famously at its most overt at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, latterly [...]

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